F.Harr at softhome.net wrote: > Call 'em quads. A one-em quad should NOT be typeface dependent, but > font size dependent. A quad that's one em wide would be twelve points > in a line or twelve point text, twenty points wide in a line of > twenty-point text etc.
If it's not typeface dependent then it may look very strange when used with condensed or expanded faces. Using the face's basic space as a guide for the others should address that at least to an extent. -- Craig Ringer
